Roughly around the same time that ancient Egypt united into a single kingdom, a little-known ancient society was also born on the other side of the world: the Caral-Supe civilization, also known as the Caral civilization or the Norte Chico civilization (3,000 to 1,800 BCE). Some scholars suggest that Caral-Supe represents the earliest civilization, not […]
Lasers Expose Stunning Tattoo Art on 1,200-Year-Old Peruvian Mummies
If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies. An international team of researchers has, for the first time, used lasers to reveal tattoos on mummies from Peru. Using this technique, detailed in a January 13 study published in the journal PNAS, researchers uncovered […]